From: "Subhash Jadavani" <subhashj@codeaurora.org>
To: 'Daniel Walker' <dwalker@fifo99.com>
Cc: cjb@laptop.org, linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org, davidb@codeaurora.org,
bryanh@codeaurora.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: RE: [RFC] mmc: msm_sdcc: Use SPS BAM as DMA engine
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 13:07:22 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <005901cbe9f6$5263f420$f72bdc60$@org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1300885535.6117.15.camel@m0nster>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-mmc-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-mmc-
> owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Walker
> Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2011 6:36 PM
> To: Subhash Jadavani
> Cc: cjb@laptop.org; linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org; linux-arm-
> msm@vger.kernel.org; davidb@codeaurora.org; bryanh@codeaurora.org;
> linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: [RFC] mmc: msm_sdcc: Use SPS BAM as DMA engine
>
> On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 18:54 +0530, Subhash Jadavani wrote:
> > On recent MSMs, ADM (Data Mover) HW is not present
> > which means existing SDCC driver can perform data
> > transfer in PIO (peripheral IO) mode only.
> > But PIO mode requires lot of CPU attention which
> > would mean consuming extra CPU MIPS.
> >
> > As a replacement on these recent MSMs, there is
> > a new DMA HW engine named SPS-BAM (as part of
> > Smart Peripheral System of MSM) is added for
> > data movement between SDCC core and system memory.
> >
> > This patch has done changes in existing MSM SDCC
> > driver for using SPS-BAM as DMA engine.
>
> 1300+ lines of code might warrant more of a description .. In the
> subject you say "DMA engine" but does this use drivers/dma/dmaengine.c
> ?
>
> > Signed-off-by: Subhash Jadavani <subhashj@codeaurora.org>
> > ---
> > drivers/mmc/host/Kconfig | 10 +
> > drivers/mmc/host/Makefile | 1 +
> > drivers/mmc/host/msm_sdcc.c | 929
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> > drivers/mmc/host/msm_sdcc.h | 47 ++
> > drivers/mmc/host/msm_sdcc_dml.c | 303 +++++++++++++
> > drivers/mmc/host/msm_sdcc_dml.h | 120 +++++
> > 6 files changed, 1374 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)
> > create mode 100644 drivers/mmc/host/msm_sdcc_dml.c
> > create mode 100644 drivers/mmc/host/msm_sdcc_dml.h
>
> I'd do at least two patches. One that adds msm_sdcc_dml.[ch] and one
> that modifies msm_sdcc.[ch] and the Kconfig and Makefile.
Yes, I can do that. Will make sure to separate it in 2 patches when I upload v2.
Thanks,
Subhash
>
> Daniel
>
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-24 7:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-18 13:24 [RFC] mmc: msm_sdcc: Use SPS BAM as DMA engine Subhash Jadavani
2011-03-18 13:24 ` Subhash Jadavani
2011-03-23 13:05 ` Daniel Walker
2011-03-24 7:32 ` Subhash Jadavani
2011-03-24 22:45 ` David Brown
2011-03-29 4:30 ` Koul, Vinod
2011-03-24 7:37 ` Subhash Jadavani [this message]
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